Reclaimed oak table
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Blocks
Over 300 blocks out of European beech. The size of the different blocks was troughout optimized due to block combination constraints.
Coffee Table
Coffee Table Solid oak 5cm. Glass inset.
Pure bed
Purebed. Build out of solid oak. The base material were rough oak log planks. First, the sapwood has to be removed. Second, the wood has to be roughly cut to size. Third, the planks were straightened with a jointer and a uniform shape of all planks was achieved with the thickness planner. Fourth, every three…
Wall-mounted panel press
Wall-mounted panel press. Making your own panels is tedious when using only clamps and not any other tools. The glue-up needs a lot of attention and a lot of (large) clamps. There must be some room for technical improvement. The requirements are: it has to be a massive and solid tool, and space in the…
Self holding contactor circuit for 3-phase motor control
Due to limited space in the workshop, the suction device (Bernardo DC-400 400V) for the planer and table saw is placed one level above the workshop. The suction device is originally equipped with a zero-voltage switch (Kedu KOA7). The suction device should be modified, such that it can be turned on and off directly from…
Solid sandbox
A sandbox for the offspring made of oak. It was a good reason to utilize some of the cracked heavy wooden beams.
Flexible highchair 2nd
After having created the template for the router and the backrest the decision was made to build a second version of the highchair. Probably the raw material is pear wood; we do not know exactly. The seat and footrest are made of birch multiplex and stained.
Flexible highchair
Using some oak offcuts from the last project there was enough wood to build a replica of a well known highchair. The seat and footrest are made of birch multiplex.
Solid oak garden bench
Solid oak (Quercus robur L.) garden bench.
Recover password for MS Excel .xls file
Remove password from a VBA project Open the .xls file in a HEX editor. Search for “DPB” Replace with “DPn” Save .xls file. Open .xls file and click yes on the error box. Set new password. Remove sheet protection Open the .xls file. Press ALT+F11. Insert → Module Paste the following code: Sub PasswordBreaker() ‘Author…
Getting rid of “Package amsmath Warning Unable to redefine math accent \vec.”
When using the llncs style from Springer this conflicts with the definition of \vec from amsmath. Thus this can be overcome with your own def: \let\origvec\vec \documentclass{llncs} \let\springervec\vec \let\vec\origvec \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} $\vec{a}$ $\springervec{a}$ \end{document}
Converting old Maerklin locomotive from analog to digital operation
Unfortunately, the chassis of the locomotive is to small for the motor. Thus, we had to grind it…
Power line hack — convert power line adapter to 2-wire ethernet adaptor
The problem A technical outbuilding is located 300m next to the main house. Unfortunately, no ethernet cable or fibre was installed between the two buildings, but a phone line between the two buildings is existing. We investigated several solutions to connect the outbuilding to the main house’s ethernet. There exist several ethernet–2-wire–ethernet bridges, but they…
Converting a traditional shower with a shower tray into a barrier-free shower with a TECE drainline
Demolish the old shower First of all the old shower tray and shower cubicle have to be removed. As the new shower is supposed to be at the same level as the floor of the bathroom, the lower tiles of the wall have to be removed, too. Unfortunately, the plasterboard removed from the wall. Thus,…
googletest Google C++ Testing Framework
Getting Started Using Microsoft Visual Studio _and_ do test driven development is not a fundamental contradiction. There are different tools freely available on the web; we choose googletest: http://code.google.com/p/googletest/ You have to download the current source code package, configure and generate with cmake http://www.cmake.org/ a Visual Studio solution. Pay attention to enable BUILD_SHARED_LIBS in cmake….